The Prepare /Enrich training is an online personalized couple’s assessment that shows the couple’s strength and growth areas based on the Positive couple agreement scale (PCA). The PCA gives the level of the relationship of marriage or premarital couples across nine score scale, these scales are communication, conflict resolution, parenting styles and habits, financial management, leisure activities, sexual expectation, family and friends and spiritual belief. The result helps in knowing the various types of marriage or premarital couples. Vitalized couple has the highest relationship satisfaction with high PCA, harmonized has moderate PCA, conventional has higher PCA in spiritual beliefs and roles while the conflicted as in the case of married have low levels of PCA. Any level of the scale that is less than 20 is considered as growth areas for the couple.
Looking at this classification and explanation about couple relationship with Dr. Oslo, I can state that couples are different individuals that team up to fix their union by encouraging themselves to improve in areas having low scores. My view is that male and female differ physically and psychologically in many ways and the failure to appreciate these differences often brings couples into conflict (Hawkins, 1991). Marriage is the union of each unique person committed to the other unique person in a position to build intimacy (Hawkins, 1991) that will help them improve their growth areas and sustain their strength areas. Couples need not be alike to have a vitalized marriage, but complement each other, by building their personality, improve their growth area and correct themselves in love. Romans 15:1 says “We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.” (NIV), this verse shows that spouses need to be committed to helping themselves in weak areas so that the